Killer Clothes by Clement Anna Maria & Clement Brian

Author:Clement, Anna Maria & Clement, Brian [Clement, Anna Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Publishing Co.
Published: 2011-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

Health Problems and Flame Retardants

• The category of retardants called PBDEs appears in the bodies of almost 100 percent of the U.S. population, based on findings from blood tests conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Environmental Health Perspectives , May 1, 2010).

• Two new chemical retardant replacements for toxic flame retardants in household products also leach into the environment, and have been detected in peregrine falcon eggs in California. This finding adds to mounting evidence that newly introduced retardants escape into the environment and persist there like all previous retardants have been seen to do (Science News , March 27, 2010).

• When breast milk samples were taken from more than three hundred North Carolina women, flame retardant contamination was found in three-quarters of them. The highest levels measured were in women twenty-five to twenty-nine years of age (Environmental Health News , Jan. 25, 2010).

• Retardants in household products contribute to fertility problems by lengthening the time it takes for women to get pregnant. Animal studies also show that PBDEs can influence ovulation and menstrual cycles (Environmental Health News , June 3, 2010).

• Children with higher concentrations of PBDEs in their umbilical cord blood at birth experience developmental effects, both physical and mental, within a few years. These include lower IQ scores (Columbia University study released via EurekAlert , Jan. 19, 2010) .

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